Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruffled tops and sweeping skirts in periwinkle, mint and peach. For this year's gala, he will feature richer, deeper colors, hand-woven textures and fabric accented with tassels and trims. "Picture a sarape, or Mexican blanket," he says. "That's my theme." Already his vision has caught the eye of the fashion establishment. "If Karl Lagerfeld had designed those dresses," said Herrera after seeing Ramos' show-stopping stretch denim minidresses, "they would be the hit of the season...
That is now difficult to do, and the consequence may be costly: prolonged exposure to invisible ultraviolet beams of sunlight may permanently damage the eyes. Ultraviolet-B is thought, for example, to be a major factor in the formation of cataracts, in which the normally transparent lens of the eye becomes cloudy or opaque. About 15% of people over 65 suffer reduced vision from cataracts; many eventually undergo surgery to have the lens replaced. Some ophthalmologists also believe that decades of absorbing ultraviolet-A may lead to destruction of cells in the center of the retina. The condition, known...
Regular tinted sunglasses that protect the eye from visible light do not < necessarily screen out harmful rays. To stop UV light, lenses must be treated with a special pigment that absorbs the damaging rays. Eye specialists caution that untreated sunglasses may be worse than no sunglasses at all. Reason: without dark glasses, people squint and blink in the sun, minimizing the amount of UV light reaching the eye...
...Waugh was not in the best of spirits when he wrote A Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...
More than two years after the Challenger disaster, NASA prepares for the planned launch of the shuttle Discovery with an eye on safety...